Reference Books

Intestinal Ills

Alcinous Burton Jamison

The keynote of this book is Proctitis, inflammation of the anal and rectal canals. Hardly a civilized man escapes proctitis from the day of the diaper to that of death. The diaper is in truth chiefly ..

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 (of 4)

Cobham Brewer

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the author of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, Brewe..

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844

Various Authors

One of the admirers of Goëthe, commenting on his characteristic excellencies, has remarked that he is the most suggestive of writers. Were we to seek an epithet by which to describe the architectural ..

Slips of Speech

John H. Bechtel

Homer, in all probability, knew no rules of rhetoric, and was not tortured with the consideration of grammatical construction, and yet his verse will endure through time. If everybody possessed the ge..

New York - The Nation's Metropolis

Peter Marcus

Peter Marcus is a painter not an architect, but he is also a designer experienced in the goldsmith’s craft and there is evident in these charcoal studies a pleasure in the delineation of the tracery o..